Art & Design

Artist Noah Scalin painstakingly collected hundreds of colorful stickers, from everything from kid’s play sets to Wacky Packages. He then carefully arranged each one based on hue, saturation, and brightness to create a bold and abstract portrait of himself.

Artist Blake Neubert has an ongoing series of layered paintings that are best appreciated in motion. Watch him put the finishing touches on his art, scraping away the top layer to reveal what’s underneath. You can purchase his original art and prints here.

Pop Chart Lab’s upcoming poster features its top 100 novels. Each title is represented by a foil-covered book cover. You can scratch the foil off to reveal the full cover art. The poster measures 18″x 24″. We’d love to have a customizable print.

Joerg Daiber’s wonderfully lighthearted time-lapse, tilt-shift look at the state of Kosovo. While most of what us Westerners hear of the territory are stories of war and conflict, this Little Big World clip will make you want to take a vacation there.

Etsy shop Tasarim Takarim specializes in custom jewelry based on children’s drawings (or yours!). You can ask them to turn the doodles into pendants, bracelets, cufflinks, tabletop sculptures and more. The shop also accepts handwriting, handprints and footprints.

Designed by Matt Cavanaugh for Kontextür, these awesome vinyl models offer lots of points of articulation, and a fun and easy assembly process using plastic screws to attach their parts. The shark and diver each measure 14″ long when swimming.

Researchers from ETH Zurich and Disney Research came up with a way to create highly detailed physical replicas of 3D models out of affordable materials. They thermoform the surface of the model to a gypsum mold cast from a 3D printed negative.

Italian furniture maker Lovli’s decorative chair is made in the shape of Buddha meditating to hold you and help you acheive a state of peace and relaxation. It’s internal lighting and polyethylene construction make it perfect in a garden or poolside.

Back in the ’70s you’d see kitschy string art pictures of horses, rainbows, and owls. Artist Petros Vrellis shows off an amazing modern take on the artform, which results in a greyscale portrait which emerges by following a pattern dictated by a computer algorithm.

During SIGGRAPH 2016, a team of game developers and CG artists used Unreal Engine 4 to demonstrate a technique for shooting a live actor and turning their performance into a cinematic sequence in just minutes, rather than the weeks or months it might normally take.

The latest addition to Figma’s Table Museum series isn’t based on a specific artwork, but we all recognize them from classical sculptures. It’s a pair of baby angels, now articulated so you can pose them however you want. Yep, it comes with a pee fountain accessory.

BLIK, IdeaPaint and doodle artist Jon Burgerman created a stick-on black and white decal that can be colored over and over with the included markers. The decal measures 40″x 24.5″ and comes with 12 markers, 2 erasers, 2 cleaning cloths and a cleaning spray.

Dan Perri has created titles and title sequences for Star Wars IV, Taxi Driver, Gangs of New York and more. He spoke with the Oscars about his career, his tools and his penchant for adapting rather than stamping his own style to the movie he’s working on.

Alex Bellos and Edmund Harris’ wonderful coloring book is designed for kids and adults who are fascinated with patterns, geometry, or mathematics. It’s packed with dozens of intricate and soothing designs to help keep your mind distracted from the day’s woes.

Drinkware with magnetic bottoms paired with an electromagnetic base, which allow them to hover. Choose from a cocktail mug, a beer mug, a coffee cup or a dessert cup. You can also just get the base in case you’re willing to attach magnets to your existing cups.

Artist Jane Labowitch aka “Princess Etch-a-Sketch” creates intricate pop art portraits and scenes using those difficult to manipulate kids toys that we thought could only draw straight lines. You can buy the original, preserved works or prints in her Etsy shop.

Digital artist Danil Krivoruchko used slow-mo footage captured on an iPhone, then ran it through a post-processing algorithm which transformed New York City into a sort of living watercolor painting. You can grab the rendering code he used on GitHub. Source footage here.

Launched in Estonia, Cleveron’s PackRobot is an automated temporary storage locker. It automatically measures packages and adjusts its warehouse’s shelves for optimal storage. Both deposit and delivery are done through the same interface for ease of use.

Artist David Bayo demonstrates his painstaking process, as he creates a beautifully shaded portrait using his Rotring Rapidograph pen to place a seemingly endless flow of tiny dots. We’re not sure he actually counted to a million, but it’s amazing nonetheless.

We absolutely love builder Thommy92’s concept design for LEGO’s Architecture series, based on Tom Wright’s iconic, sailboat-like design of Dubai’s swanky Burj Al Arab hotel. Help get it produced with a vote on LEGO Ideas.

Hermit crabs wander the beach looking for abandoned shells to call home. But artist Aki Inomata creates custom shells based on buildings and other forms using CAT scans of shells, 3D modeling, and 3D printing. And if this seems wacky, check out Inomata’s other project.

Backcountry Tiny Homes sells plans and guides for building a rustic trailer home based on the one that they made for themselves. Starting at 204sq.ft., the home has many modern amenities and also has a roof deck and off-grid options.

A visually stunning short film created entirely using the Unity Engine. The surreal science fiction short has amazing volumetric light and shadow effects, tearing fabrics, motion blur and more. Apparently, it can run in real time on a GeForce GTX980 card at 1440p resolution.

Visual Suspect took real world images of Hong Kong’s dramatic skyline, and transformed them into surreal, otherworldly locales by mirroring them, in this short film inspired by Plato’s eponymous story about how the real world is much more than what our senses tell us it is.

A smartly designed modern bookshelf combines three useful features in one. Its zig-zag shape provides a place to store books, a spot to hold your place, and a reading lamp underneath, which automatically switches on and off when your book is removed or placed.